Alkekengi
Alkekengi ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Compare French alkékenge, Sp. alquequenje, ultimately from Arabic al-kākanj a kind of resin from Herat.]
(Botany) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. — D. C. Eaton